Yup, no doubt... I just had to ditch X 20mins ago due to flash lockup. I'm not a big fan of flash, but the glacial movement of SVG animations and browser support and dev tools or other working (and open) solutions, well, it's crap or nothing. What's more is that for most things, nothing is the better choice (no browser nav in flash, obscure interfaces, no source, difficult to change, etc). The occasional flash interface/game/app is well done tho, and there's little out there to replace it.
flash-plugin-nonfree works fine for me under ubuntu amd64 (gutsy). Well I'm not overly in favour of flash (due to its authoring restrictions and limited binary distribution), it does work on amd64 (finally).
You could do a pdf to jpg for each page, then a resize to thumbnail. You'd want to cache the thumbnails, but if your pdfs aren't changing much, there's not too much overhead.
Do we? It's removed from the individual... we're using representations we have no say over. There is no barter, for the most part... just an asking price with no negotiation... it costs what it costs because its what is asked. Pay it or go without. Barter for actual worth to self is refused. Steal or revolt and go to jail. There is no direct exchange between buyer and seller... just an indirect market valuation. So, buyer is not exchanging directly with seller and seller not with buyer, instead they use an intermediary. That intermediary is centrally controlled and detached from the populace. I don't want to get into centralized banking scams, but they are plenty... they get rich on the backs of those who have no choice but to participate, and by participating collectively condone the distasteful acts that go into keeping the whole house of cards intact. Starvation and drought in the land of plenty. Nobody learns from the process, there are far too many slaves to a broken system and far too few benefit, despite the propaganda. Sure, it's what we know, and sure everybody has to participate in it at one level or another, but that doesn't mean they have to like it or to not push for something better. We're getting closer to it online, but there is still no concept of direct barter. I'm not sure if we have the language to transend the inherited.
Yeah, cause we all know how dynamic and personally relevant the financial system is. I hope a trust based barter system emerges so we can rid ourselves of negative reinforcement backed, centralized (corruptable), bottlenecked, legacy systems. Piracy is a the death cry of scams that have been routed around... this too shall pass. The treasured will always be rewarded, in one form or another.
This is my current setup, after trying several ergo solutions. Posture, straight wrists, correct monitor position and massage all help. I've cranked out well over 40k LOC with this setup without problems. With a traditional kbd and mouse I was getting shoulder, wrist and hand pain... not any more. I'm sure it's possible to use a standard setup without RSI, if you ensure that the ergonimics are good.
Are they using the ps3 hardware to emulate a ps1 or ps2? If so, yeah, it would be alot of work to ensure compatability... It would probably be cheaper just to include modernized ps1 and ps2 hardware within the ps3, using overlapping components (controllers, video out, etc). Detect the type from the disc and activate the appropriate hardware. AFA the game would be concerned, it would be on the appropriate hardware and there would be no mapping layer to maintain.
Sure, you can pay... if you really want to. VMWare ESX is the closest tech wise. The chip manufacturers realized that running multiple os' was going on, and they could build support for it directly into the processors. Recent chips have virtualization support and KVM provides a kernel level interface for the operations not provided by the chip virtualization (ie talking to devices, etc). You'll get a fuller solution with VMWare... and someone to bitch to when you can't be bothered to spend 5 minutes looking for a solution, but KVM/QEMU works fine for me. I'm basically only using it for IE testing, tho I could be using ie4linux. Once it's running properly (loading the kvm kernel module was failing due to perm problems), it's dead simple, and looks like a great and easy way to run any x86 os at near native speeds.
You can run a full fledged windows instance at ~80%+ of native with KVM/QEMU within linux... share files with the instance over samba, etc. It may not do games (vga video) and it may not speak to all devices as if it were in charge, but it will work well for most windows apps, and it's free, 'cept for the windows.
Yes, because new things should have existing applications. They're new, they enable new. It might not have applicability now, but it might do when google offloads your search to a qbit coprocessor.
Yeah, the sql indexing is useful for finding a single file among many when mass archiving... rather a different solution than straight backup. Using the sql disk index I had actually built up a Fuse VFS for NSM serial controled optical jukebox. ie: 'cd/jukebox/disk32/; ls; mplayer file.mp3' would set disk32 as the curr, list files from sql index, then load disk 32 and stream the file. It's not far off working, actually...
Heh, sorry, it's not good enough to release (currently broken). I integrated it with my sql disk indexer and it got kind of big. The core is not much more than growisofs and dir compare. The rest is java to sort by filesize and create growisofs command. Perhaps I should get it good enough again.
Yeah, well, backup is a good thing to do. I've built myself a script to find 4G, prompt for disk and burn it, validate the burn and, if burned correctly, nuke the files, eject and move on to the next 4G. It works well, and at >$.30 for 4G it's cheap and fast. Not reliable enough for the paranoid, perhaps. If not, suck it up and mirror a couple cheap smaller drives.
beautiful, well coded, etc. For the casual gamer, it's too tough. The lower levels fly by with lots of content and lots of progress. Starting at around lvl 14 orso, it seems to get exponentially more difficult to level a character, with the only way being to grind and grind and grind. The rule hacks added to prevent massive character leveling by professional levelers have impacted the casual gameplay to the point where it is extremely difficult to advance without spending a large amount of time grinding, which is boring. The world itself is beautiful, but to have to slay morlocs for days to get an enchanter to the required grunt level to learn new enchanting skills is nuts. 'Bash things because we want to slow you down' seems like the way it goes... I wonder how many ppl are leaving due to that.
What federal taxes? Personal income tax? All that (non-required) tax goes to pay off debt. Corporate income tax? All that tax goes to the millitary. Gas tax goes to roads. I'm not sure what, if any, federal tax goes back to Cali.
System->Administration->Synaptic, click search, type package name, select, hit apply. It's graphical. Once installed, the update manager syncs in the background and informs of updates, which, once confirmed, are downloaded and applied. Updates are found for all packages, not just core system stuff, as in Windows Update.
If you want to try it out, download ubuntu livecd and boot from it. The pre-install environment is a full featured runtime without touching your disks. Linux has always been good at working well when it works, and now it's getting better to get it working and fix it when it is not... and Ubuntu seems to be the best of the distros. There are times when a Windows box is nice, and dual booting is easy enough to setup for an adventurous novice. Adventure enough and one is soon no longer a novice.
Because, yeah, you know, no one can work without a pointy haired boss with a whip. How else do you learn self discipline without doing it yourself? When self motivated, the quality of the product also tends to be better. Slacking is just an indication that the job sucks, and the employer should be making the work process more efficient and less tedious and workplace more productive, not supressing the symptom.
cjsw, University of Calgary radio. 160kps ogg stream (in addition to mp3 streams).
I run the stream, and chose to because what they play can be great. The most mediocre song is better than most of the best played on local roofer radio (commercial radio).
Well, yes and no. It's perhaps of less benefit for the larger labels... polished crap for the mass market gets old quickly. The small labels are loving it, tho. Suddenly there is demand for niche works from niche artists doing what they love. That is what the smallers bring... a networking of like minded, like intended. There are alot of listeners out there. The biggies are just pissed that their most blatent marketing and distribution strangleholds have been undermined. The irony is that the swamp of mediocrity is what helped to push internet distribution and started their demise. And, of course, they'd be screwed were it not for (digital) technology in general. If you live in a glass house don't throw stones.
There's _ALOT_ more out there, and now there is selection where once there was only Elton John and other mass distributed mediocraty. You want to make a change, you do something about it. If you cant, work with it and stop bitching about things you don't improve. Bitching is noise. Progress is beautiful.
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Yup, no doubt... I just had to ditch X 20mins ago due to flash lockup. I'm not a big fan of flash, but the glacial movement of SVG animations and browser support and dev tools or other working (and open) solutions, well, it's crap or nothing. What's more is that for most things, nothing is the better choice (no browser nav in flash, obscure interfaces, no source, difficult to change, etc). The occasional flash interface/game/app is well done tho, and there's little out there to replace it.
flash-plugin-nonfree works fine for me under ubuntu amd64 (gutsy). Well I'm not overly in favour of flash (due to its authoring restrictions and limited binary distribution), it does work on amd64 (finally).
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
You could do a pdf to jpg for each page, then a resize to thumbnail. You'd want to cache the thumbnails, but if your pdfs aren't changing much, there's not too much overhead.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Do we? It's removed from the individual... we're using representations we have no say over. There is no barter, for the most part... just an asking price with no negotiation... it costs what it costs because its what is asked. Pay it or go without. Barter for actual worth to self is refused. Steal or revolt and go to jail. There is no direct exchange between buyer and seller... just an indirect market valuation. So, buyer is not exchanging directly with seller and seller not with buyer, instead they use an intermediary. That intermediary is centrally controlled and detached from the populace. I don't want to get into centralized banking scams, but they are plenty... they get rich on the backs of those who have no choice but to participate, and by participating collectively condone the distasteful acts that go into keeping the whole house of cards intact. Starvation and drought in the land of plenty. Nobody learns from the process, there are far too many slaves to a broken system and far too few benefit, despite the propaganda. Sure, it's what we know, and sure everybody has to participate in it at one level or another, but that doesn't mean they have to like it or to not push for something better. We're getting closer to it online, but there is still no concept of direct barter. I'm not sure if we have the language to transend the inherited.
Yeah, cause we all know how dynamic and personally relevant the financial system is. I hope a trust based barter system emerges so we can rid ourselves of negative reinforcement backed, centralized (corruptable), bottlenecked, legacy systems. Piracy is a the death cry of scams that have been routed around... this too shall pass. The treasured will always be rewarded, in one form or another.
Hehe, the datahands for the physical pain, the jager for the logical anguish.
This is my current setup, after trying several ergo solutions. Posture, straight wrists, correct monitor position and massage all help. I've cranked out well over 40k LOC with this setup without problems. With a traditional kbd and mouse I was getting shoulder, wrist and hand pain... not any more. I'm sure it's possible to use a standard setup without RSI, if you ensure that the ergonimics are good.
Are they using the ps3 hardware to emulate a ps1 or ps2? If so, yeah, it would be alot of work to ensure compatability... It would probably be cheaper just to include modernized ps1 and ps2 hardware within the ps3, using overlapping components (controllers, video out, etc). Detect the type from the disc and activate the appropriate hardware. AFA the game would be concerned, it would be on the appropriate hardware and there would be no mapping layer to maintain.
Sure, you can pay... if you really want to. VMWare ESX is the closest tech wise. The chip manufacturers realized that running multiple os' was going on, and they could build support for it directly into the processors. Recent chips have virtualization support and KVM provides a kernel level interface for the operations not provided by the chip virtualization (ie talking to devices, etc). You'll get a fuller solution with VMWare... and someone to bitch to when you can't be bothered to spend 5 minutes looking for a solution, but KVM/QEMU works fine for me. I'm basically only using it for IE testing, tho I could be using ie4linux. Once it's running properly (loading the kvm kernel module was failing due to perm problems), it's dead simple, and looks like a great and easy way to run any x86 os at near native speeds.
You can run a full fledged windows instance at ~80%+ of native with KVM/QEMU within linux... share files with the instance over samba, etc. It may not do games (vga video) and it may not speak to all devices as if it were in charge, but it will work well for most windows apps, and it's free, 'cept for the windows.
Yes, because new things should have existing applications. They're new, they enable new. It might not have applicability now, but it might do when google offloads your search to a qbit coprocessor.
...outlaw the rational.
butterflies and artichokes to me.
Yeah, the sql indexing is useful for finding a single file among many when mass archiving... rather a different solution than straight backup. Using the sql disk index I had actually built up a Fuse VFS for NSM serial controled optical jukebox. ie: 'cd /jukebox/disk32/; ls; mplayer file.mp3' would set disk32 as the curr, list files from sql index, then load disk 32 and stream the file. It's not far off working, actually...
Heh, sorry, it's not good enough to release (currently broken). I integrated it with my sql disk indexer and it got kind of big. The core is not much more than growisofs and dir compare. The rest is java to sort by filesize and create growisofs command. Perhaps I should get it good enough again.
Yeah, well, backup is a good thing to do. I've built myself a script to find 4G, prompt for disk and burn it, validate the burn and, if burned correctly, nuke the files, eject and move on to the next 4G. It works well, and at >$.30 for 4G it's cheap and fast. Not reliable enough for the paranoid, perhaps. If not, suck it up and mirror a couple cheap smaller drives.
beautiful, well coded, etc. For the casual gamer, it's too tough. The lower levels fly by with lots of content and lots of progress. Starting at around lvl 14 orso, it seems to get exponentially more difficult to level a character, with the only way being to grind and grind and grind. The rule hacks added to prevent massive character leveling by professional levelers have impacted the casual gameplay to the point where it is extremely difficult to advance without spending a large amount of time grinding, which is boring. The world itself is beautiful, but to have to slay morlocs for days to get an enchanter to the required grunt level to learn new enchanting skills is nuts. 'Bash things because we want to slow you down' seems like the way it goes... I wonder how many ppl are leaving due to that.
What federal taxes? Personal income tax? All that (non-required) tax goes to pay off debt. Corporate income tax? All that tax goes to the millitary. Gas tax goes to roads. I'm not sure what, if any, federal tax goes back to Cali.
System->Administration->Synaptic, click search, type package name, select, hit apply. It's graphical. Once installed, the update manager syncs in the background and informs of updates, which, once confirmed, are downloaded and applied. Updates are found for all packages, not just core system stuff, as in Windows Update. If you want to try it out, download ubuntu livecd and boot from it. The pre-install environment is a full featured runtime without touching your disks. Linux has always been good at working well when it works, and now it's getting better to get it working and fix it when it is not... and Ubuntu seems to be the best of the distros. There are times when a Windows box is nice, and dual booting is easy enough to setup for an adventurous novice. Adventure enough and one is soon no longer a novice.
Because, yeah, you know, no one can work without a pointy haired boss with a whip. How else do you learn self discipline without doing it yourself? When self motivated, the quality of the product also tends to be better. Slacking is just an indication that the job sucks, and the employer should be making the work process more efficient and less tedious and workplace more productive, not supressing the symptom.
cjsw, University of Calgary radio. 160kps ogg stream (in addition to mp3 streams). I run the stream, and chose to because what they play can be great. The most mediocre song is better than most of the best played on local roofer radio (commercial radio).
Well, yes and no. It's perhaps of less benefit for the larger labels... polished crap for the mass market gets old quickly. The small labels are loving it, tho. Suddenly there is demand for niche works from niche artists doing what they love. That is what the smallers bring... a networking of like minded, like intended. There are alot of listeners out there. The biggies are just pissed that their most blatent marketing and distribution strangleholds have been undermined. The irony is that the swamp of mediocrity is what helped to push internet distribution and started their demise. And, of course, they'd be screwed were it not for (digital) technology in general. If you live in a glass house don't throw stones.
There's _ALOT_ more out there, and now there is selection where once there was only Elton John and other mass distributed mediocraty. You want to make a change, you do something about it. If you cant, work with it and stop bitching about things you don't improve. Bitching is noise. Progress is beautiful.